SU DAILY GUIDE DEVOTIONAL MESSAGE FOR TODAY
March 28, 2023 || Scripture Union Daily Guide Reading, SU Daily Guide Devotional Reading for Tuesday. Read SU Daily Guide Message
TOPIC: The Temple Will Be Destroyed
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OPENING PRAYER: Dear Lord, expose me to your truth as I read your word in Jesus name.
SCRIPTURE FOR TODAY: Mark 13:1-13
QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION
• Q 2: Is there any example for me to follow or not to follow?
• Q 5: Is there any warning for me to heed?
March 28, 2023 Scripture Union Daily Guide MESSAGE
The Temple is an amazing architecture with massive stones and magnificent buildings to admire, built to last forever. But Jesus foretells its complete destruction. This happened in AD 70 when Jerusalem and the Temple were destroyed.
The disciples were teachable and continually learning from Jesus. So privately, four of them asked about the timing and the events that will accompany these things (vs.3-4). Jesus responded by alerting them to things they should watch out for. First are false Messiahs whose purpose is to mislead and deceive. Sadly, they will deceive many (vs.5&6).
Notice other signs in vs.7-8 and the second “watch out” in v.9. However, these trials “will be your opportunity to tell them about me” (v.9). The persecution will be so hard that even family members will actively join in it (vs.12-13)! Is it any different today? But God will never abandon us. Read and take to heart the encouragement in v.11.
Living as a true Christian will be getting more and more difficult, “but he who stands firm to the end will be saved”. They are not saved by their perseverance through life’s joys, hard persecutions, and betrayals by even family members. But their consistent, continuous Christ-like lifestyle, despite the pressures, is proof that true salvation has been received and can never be interrupted for the believer (see Romans 8:35-39).
• Any new insight or reinforcement of what you already know?
CLOSING PRAYER
Lord God, I pray for grace and courage to stand firm in times of difficulties, pressures, and persecutions.
Offer a prayer of faith in line with Isaiah 46:10
ONE YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN
Deuteronomy 8, 9, Acts 20.
NATIONAL PRAYER BULLETIN – Tue, 28-Mar-2023
PRAYER FOCUS
ENDURING TILL THE END
Love bears all things, believes all things, and endures all things.
– 1 Corinthians 13:7
THANK GOD FOR:
► Filling our hearts daily with Joy and Peace as we keep on believing Him for our daily supply.
► The presence of His Spirit that has kept and still keeps our hope in Him a life daily.
PRAY FOR:
► Daily growth in the spirit as we continue to read, study and apply God’s word in our lives.
► Grace to remain steadfast as the planned purpose of God comes to past in our lives.
► Sober minded and grace to endure any suffering God permits knowing He will make a way out of it.
PRAY AGAINST:
► Every weight of sin that may want to cling thereby not making us run with endurance.
► Loosing faith because of the hostility of the devil and his cohorts thereby abandoning our fellowship with God and man.
Scripture Union Daily Guide 28th March 2023. Scripture Union is an international, interdenominational, evangelical Christian organization. It was founded in 1867, and works in partnership with individuals and churches across the world. The organization’s stated aim is to use the Bible to inspire children, young people and adults to know God
